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History of Mining in Bartow County, Georgia,
BARYTES. Barytes was first mined in the 1800's, near Allatoona, a town in the southeast part of Bartow County. Dornicks were hand mined. The outside dirt was chipped off and the clean ore was put in bags and shipped to Germany to make barium chemicals.